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April 2024
Hanoi city walk (English) – Bạch Mã temple and Old Quarter charm – FULL
THIS WALK IS NOW FULL AS OF 1PM 10 APRIL. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST Welcome to our stroll around some of Hanoi’s Old Quarter and the ’36 Streets’. This is the Bạch Mã temple walk where we discover why a white horse was instrumental in the building of the Thang Long citadel over 1,000 yrs ago, how today’s trade of Hàng Buồm street with its alcohol shops and bars is a far cry from its original activity, we visit a number…
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Talk. Operation Hope: The gift of healing. Hanoi surgeons transforming lives in northern ethnic minority regions
Center II, a local Hanoi NGO, was born with the mission to change the lives of disabled minority children from poor families in very remote areas in North of Vietnam, including Hà Giang, Lạng Sơn, Lai Châu, Cao Bằng, and Yên Bái. It assists, educates, and mentors local health officials, doctors, social workers, and DOLISA employees at various levels in the provinces so they may improve their cognitive abilities and deal with similar situations. Centre II is the inspiration behind the coordination…
Find out more »FVH Bookclub – Ticket to Childhood by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
Venue for this month is TBC but will be in the Tay Ho area. For more information on our bookclub (which meets monthly at the beginning of each month) please email hello@fvheritage.org or Carolyn at cjeziorski@unishanoi.org
Find out more »Quiz Night for May: test your knowledge of Vietnam!
Join Friends of Vietnam Heritage for a trivia night! We will have trivia questions all about Vietnam! There will be four rounds of culture, photos, people, places, history, literature, and more! You can join as a team, or can sign up individually and be put on a team that night. Come out and test your knowledge! The top three teams will win prizes! Thanks to Jim from Red River Tea Room for letting hold our 2nd quiz night here (our…
Find out more »Hanoi City walk (English) – silver & coffee: Hàng Bạc to Nguyễn Hữu Huân – nearly full
AS OF 9 MAY MORNING MAX. 2 SPACES AVAILABLE. AFTER WHICH WE WILL HAVE A WAITNG LIST. THANKS ‘SILVER, COFFEE, REVOLUTION AND ICE CREAM’ A short distance as the crow flies. But we take the long way round zig zagging up and down the streets in this familiar area of the Old Quarter to discover the unfamiliar – from Đinh Liệt and Hang Bac to Cầu Gỗ and Nguyễn Hữu Huân streets. We touch on many subjects from the birth…
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